With the commissioning of the control unit, the department can keep a tab and maintain the record of the movement of its fleet including the vehicles attached with different departments and constitutional authorities, the minister said.

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture said it was not convinced with the IEBR projections and questioned as to how the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways (MORTH) would complete projects targeted for next fiscal as there is a huge gap of funding through market resources.

The state government will grant permission for the alignment of 195km Jaipur-Delhi Expressway, paving way for land acquisition in the Rajasthan section soon after it receives request from the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).

He said the city government has undertaken a series of measures to curb pollution, both from vehicles and dust, which include marking of dedicated bus lanes and vacuum cleaning of roads under the Delhi government.

One of the major causes of air pollution in Delhi is the fine suspended particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10) due to dust on roads and construction sites. The dust gathered — due to improper or non-cleaning of roads — is compounded further by the lakhs of vehicles running on Delhi roads.

PWD has already commissioned feasibility studies for these projects, including double-decker corridors with exclusive lanes for buses and roads for high-speed traffic, and hopes to get approval from the apex planning body UTTIPEC in the next three to six months.

With the deadline to submit their views and suggestions on the NGT order of banning diesel vehicles that are over 10 years old approaching, the transport department on Tuesday held a meeting with vehicle manufacturers, environment department, NDMC, PWD, corporations, civil society organizations and IIT Delhi.

As per the suit filed, Royal Enfield has infringed Flash electronics’ patent on “Regulator Rectifier Device and Method for Regulating an Output Voltage of the Same” duly issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to Flash Electronics on February 20, 2018 after Flash’s R&D department made a breakthrough invention of the component in 2014.